SPECIAL TOPICS AND LINKS

Compiled by Bennie J. McRae, Jr.

• BLACK CIVIL WAR SAILORS
   
• UNCLAIMED CIVIL WAR MEDALS - 45th USCT
   
• DEALING WITH SLAVERY
   

• WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO's United States Colored Civil War Soldiers and Sailors and  Officers Who Served in the United States Colored Troops
   

• UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS IN THE MOBILE, ALABAMA CAMPAIGN
   
• SLAVERY, UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, CIVIL WAR IN DELAWARE AND MARYLAND
   
• COLORED MEN AND THEIR RELATION TO THE MILITARY SERVICE, AS ESTABLISHED BY LAWS AND ORDERS DURING THE LATE WAR, AND THEIR RECRUITMENT AS SOLDIERS
   
• MINUTES OF AN INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE COLORED MINISTERS AND CHURCH OFFICERS AT SAVANNAH WITH THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND MAJOR-GENERAL SHERMAN
   
• MAJOR GENERAL W.T. SHERMAN - HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, In the Field, Savannah, January 12, 1865.
   
• CAMP NELSON, KENTUCKY
   
• MILLIKEN'S BEND - WEBSITE - Honoring the Contributions of Black Soldiers during the Civil War
   
• A VOICE FOR BLACK SOLDIERS - (5 pages)
   
• SLAVERY IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA
   
• FREEDMEN, THE FREED SLAVES OF THE CIVIL WAR
   
• BLACK CODES IN THE FORMER CONFEDERATE STATES
   
• DECLARATION OF CAUSES OF SECEDING STATES - Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas
   
• DID BLACKS TYPICALLY SERVE AS CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS?  
   
• A LACK OF EVIDENCE - Blacks did not fight for the South....... (Newspaper Column)
   
• A PRIMER ON BLACK TROOPS IN THE AMERICAN WEST
   
• THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND THE CIVIL WAR
   
• THE BATTLE OF MILLIKEN'S BEND - (Revised and updated: July 21, 2000)
   
• THE BLACK MEMORIAL DAY TRADITION IN VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI or...................
   
• THE SOUTH'S NEGRO REQUIREMENT
   
• HISTORY OF CAPTAIN W. W. McCARTY'S PRISON LIFE, AND SOUTHERN PRISONS
   
• THE NORTHERN WING OF THE REBELLION
   
• THE MASSACRE AT FORT PILLOW
   
• THE BATTLE OF FORT PILLOW (April 12, 1864) - Official Records
   
• CAMP WILLIAM PENN'S BLACK SOLDIERS IN BLUE
   
• THE BLACK BRIGADE OF CINCINNATI
   
• MAJOR GENERALS JOHN C. FREMONT AND DAVID HUNTER VERSUS PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN
   
• REPORT - SKIRMISH AT ISLAND MOUND, MISSOURI - NOTE: First engagement by Colored Troops - October 29, 1862
   
• LETTER TO SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY OF THE JAMES
   
• REPORT BY COLONEL R. D. MUSSEY - COMMISSIONER FOR ORGANIZATION OF U. S. COLORED TROOPS - - Nashville, Tennessee, October 10, 1864
   
• UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS IN THE MOBILE, ALABAMA CAMPAIGN - Reports - March 31-April 9, 1865
   
• SERVING THE UNION: U.S. COLORED TROOPS IN THE RETREAT TO APPOMATTOX
   
• CHRISTINE'S AFRICAN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY/CIVIL WAR WEBSITES
   
• THIRD DIVISION, TWENTY-FIFTH ARMY CORPS
   
• NEEDED MYTH: THE CREATION OF BLACK CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
   
• THE GREAT GALLANTRY OF THE NEGRO TROOPS AT MILLIKEN'S BEND
   
• CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA'S PLAN TO PUT SLAVES IN THE TRENCHES
   
• RECONSTRUCTION - POST CIVIL WAR
   

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